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My supposition is that the expense and disruption of moving what has become an enormous machine of state would make no sense in a country that is already overbuilt. Possibly not, though there have been cases of a new regime moving the capital to symbolize a break from the old regime when it would h...

The map marks Beijing as the capital of China, but even that is “okay” for Taiwan’s purposes: If they should ever regain control of China (fat chance, of course), the seat of government would surely return to Beijing from exile. Not necessarily. The Kuomintang's capital before their retreat to Taiw...

quadibloc wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:44 am maybe Syria actually was called "Persia" at one point after Persia became Iran.

That would be very confusing.

people climbing Everest do need to temporarily swap their satellite phones for equivalent ones provided by the Chinese authorities while on the mountain, and hence in Chinese territory. This is noted in numerous mountain climbing accounts. I haven't managed to find any of these numerous mountain cl...

quadibloc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 1:59 pm Yet, people climbing K2 have to hand over their cell phones to China just like with Everest

Climbers have to hand over their cell phones? Really?

Could it have been intentional? I mean, only 12 countries actually recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/count ... ize-taiwan

Milo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:17 pm Eckert VI looks superficially inspired by the sinusoidal projection...

I'd say more than just superficially. Its meridians are the mean of the sinusoidal projection and the plate carrée.

the basic principle remains: distortion is greatest near the seam. If you don't have that, then you no longer have a homolosine projection in any meaningful sense. the entire point is that near the equator, it is exactly identical to the sinusoidal projection, and thus has benefits such as not exce...

I have to wonder what you're trying to do. I'm not sure whether or not this was rhetorical and whether it was only directed to quadibloc or also to me. Obviously I can't speak for anyone else, but all I was trying to do was get rid of an annoyingly unnecessary kink. I'm not a big fan of projections...

Interesting idea. Any chance you could upload an image?

A couple of years ago, I came up with a more conservative solution for getting rid of the kink and posted it here. I had to upload the images again because they've all disappeared.